The National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) is a Canadian Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization.[1] NCCM was formerly known as the Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CAN).[2][3]

In 2014, the NCCM sued former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his spokesman Jason MacDonald for defamation for alleging that the organization had "documented ties" to Hamas, a designated terrorist group in Canada.[4] In February 2015, Jason MacDonald was questioned under oath in the defamation case and Stephen Harper claimed parliamentary privilege to avoid testifying.[5] That same month, MacDonald resigned as the Prime Minister's communications director.[6] In March 2017, in a publicly announced settlement of the libel lawsuit, MacDonald admitted that his statements regarding the NCCM were inaccurate.[7] The Government of Canada also issued a statement "disavowing MacDonald's suggestion that the council had terrorist ties."[7]

According to 2001 census, there were 579,640 Muslims in Canada, just under 2% of the population.[8] In 2021, the Canadian Muslim population was estimated to be 1.8 million or 4.9% of the population.[9]

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  1. ↑ "Mom of boy on no-fly list 'really looking forward' to travelling after feds announce plan to end mix-ups". CBC. 2016-06-10. Retrieved 2019-11-05.
  2. ↑ "NCCM - National Council of Canadian Muslims". National Council of Canadian Muslims. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
  3. ↑ "National Council of Canadian Muslims reveals anti-Islamophobia recommendations".
  4. ↑ "Muslim group takes next step in court action against PMO spokesman | CTV News". www.ctvnews.ca. 26 May 2014. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
  5. ↑ Am; Feb 18, a Connolly Published on; 2015 1:00pm (2015-02-18). "Harper invokes parliamentary privilege in libel lawsuit". iPolitics. Retrieved 2019-06-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ↑ "Jason MacDonald leaving Prime Minister's Office 7 months before election". CBC. Retrieved 2019-11-05.
  7. 1 2 "Stephen Harper's ex-spokesman admits he wrongly suggested Muslim group had terrorist ties".
  8. ↑ Population by religion, by province and territory (2001 Census) Archived 2008-05-01 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ↑ Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (October 26, 2022). "The Daily — The Canadian census: A rich portrait of the country's religious and ethnocultural diversity". www150.statcan.gc.ca.
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